What I think of iPod
I think I've mentioned in a previous posting last autumn that I won an iPod in a competition arranged by the Norwegian Labour Party in connection with the National Election? Well, I was quite happy to win it, I guess I still sort of am - but if I had actually spent money on buying this thing - I surely wouldn't have been very happy about the money spent.....
When I first got it I thought that well, I've used a lot of technical stuff in my days, so I really shouldn't have to read the manual to get the thing going. I mean, arrows up/arrows down, and then the enter button in the middle... right! So, having decided that reading the manual is for sissies, I started hitting the arrows up and down, and had no luck understanding how to operate the darn thing - and half an hour later all I had managed to do was set the language to Chinese!!! Now everything got a whole lot easier....NOT!! I'm not a very patient person, I must admit at that time the iPod nearly came to a very abrupt end after a fall from the balcony in our 4th floor apartement!! I managed to now throw it out - and reluctantly set to reading the manual - and it actually had a trouble shooting part in the back that told how to choose another language if you had accidentally chosen the wrong one.
This was the first thing that bugged me about the iPod - it's bit different from a lot of other technical things you use, like you don't use arrows up and down, you have to do a circeling motion to move through the menues. But I got it up and going.
When installing the Software, iTunes, I didn't pay much attention, just answered go for it everytime the installation programme asked me question. So I ended up uploading absolutely everything of music files that was on my computer to the iPod. You see, it automatically uploads everything that's in the library of iTunes, and as I'd said I wanted the library of iTunes to get it's files from my music catalog, oh, well.... I just thought, this is no problem, I can just delete all the files from the iPod that I don't want there. This is when I hit the second thing that bugs me about the iPod - this is not possible!! You have to delete everything or nothing. You can reset the iPod and start uploading everything from scratch, or be happy about what's on it.
Well, I got past this as well. Now I discovered that the only power cord accompanying the iPod is the one that connects it to the computer, to get more power you have to connect it to a computer, so bringing it on a one week trip to Gran Canaria is out of the question, since I've got no computer there. This was the 3rd thing that bugged me about the iPod, for a little while - till I discovered that you can, as an extra equipement, buy an adapter that allows you to use a regular outlet in the wall to charge it. But still! Really? This has to be extra equipement - why on Earth can't this be standard equipment??? I've ordered this adapter now that I bought the TV, DVD and Laptop - I thought, when I'm spending 26000 kroners on other electronic things, I might actually also treat me to the adapter at a price of 298 kroner!!!
OK! 3 bugging things so far!!
When I got the iPod I lived in Oslo. My computer had just crashed so I installed iTunes on my flatmate's computer and that's also the computer that I ripped all the music to that I wanted on my iPod. As all of you should know by now, I moved back to Solör at Christmas. I have bought a new laptop, but it won't be delivered for another 2 weeks.
On Sunday I'm going on this 48 hours booze cruise, for this trip I thought it nice to put some new music on to my iPod. I installed iTunes on my father's computer (which is the one I'm using till I get my own), and carefully told iTunes NOT to identify the "My Music" folder as the same as the library in iTunes. After that I found about 10 songs that I wanted to upload to the iPod, put them in the library, plugged in the iPod and got this question: "The iPod has detected that this is not the iTunes library you've been using in the past. Do you want iPod to set this as the new standard library, delet evertying that's on the iPod now and replace it with whatever's in this new iTunes library?" (well, it didn't say exactly that, but something similar!) Of course not!!! I've spent days ripping music into the library in Oslo, I don't want to do all that over again - I want to keep what's on the iPod now AND ad some new songs from this new iTunes library. I answered no to the question - and then nothing more happened. I tried once more, got the same question - said no this time as well - and nothing more happened! This is when I learnt about the 4th thing that bugs me about the iPod: when you change to a new computer, what ever job you've done in the past with ripping music to your old computer - you have to do it all over again!!!
What am I doing today?? Spending the day by the computer ripping music, to the iTunes library, so that when I want to upload this 10 new songs that I want to bring on the party cruise, I also get to keep all the music that I've got on it from before.....
What really really BUGS me is knowing that when I get my own computer in about 2 weeks - I'll have to do it all over again - for the third time!!! Or, oh, I guess I could somehow just copy the files from my fathers computer to my own, but I still have to do a job fixing it.
Why couldn't I just leave out the 10 new songs, and live with whatever's on my iPod when I'm on the cruise? I'm stubborn, that's it! When I've first set my mind on something I'm not very likely to give up before I've got it my way.....
So, I guess by now you might actually have understood how I feel about the iPod. It''s an ok prize in a competition I guess, but never never use good money buying one - there's got to be other kinds of players out there that are far far better than this!
When I first got it I thought that well, I've used a lot of technical stuff in my days, so I really shouldn't have to read the manual to get the thing going. I mean, arrows up/arrows down, and then the enter button in the middle... right! So, having decided that reading the manual is for sissies, I started hitting the arrows up and down, and had no luck understanding how to operate the darn thing - and half an hour later all I had managed to do was set the language to Chinese!!! Now everything got a whole lot easier....NOT!! I'm not a very patient person, I must admit at that time the iPod nearly came to a very abrupt end after a fall from the balcony in our 4th floor apartement!! I managed to now throw it out - and reluctantly set to reading the manual - and it actually had a trouble shooting part in the back that told how to choose another language if you had accidentally chosen the wrong one.
This was the first thing that bugged me about the iPod - it's bit different from a lot of other technical things you use, like you don't use arrows up and down, you have to do a circeling motion to move through the menues. But I got it up and going.
When installing the Software, iTunes, I didn't pay much attention, just answered go for it everytime the installation programme asked me question. So I ended up uploading absolutely everything of music files that was on my computer to the iPod. You see, it automatically uploads everything that's in the library of iTunes, and as I'd said I wanted the library of iTunes to get it's files from my music catalog, oh, well.... I just thought, this is no problem, I can just delete all the files from the iPod that I don't want there. This is when I hit the second thing that bugs me about the iPod - this is not possible!! You have to delete everything or nothing. You can reset the iPod and start uploading everything from scratch, or be happy about what's on it.
Well, I got past this as well. Now I discovered that the only power cord accompanying the iPod is the one that connects it to the computer, to get more power you have to connect it to a computer, so bringing it on a one week trip to Gran Canaria is out of the question, since I've got no computer there. This was the 3rd thing that bugged me about the iPod, for a little while - till I discovered that you can, as an extra equipement, buy an adapter that allows you to use a regular outlet in the wall to charge it. But still! Really? This has to be extra equipement - why on Earth can't this be standard equipment??? I've ordered this adapter now that I bought the TV, DVD and Laptop - I thought, when I'm spending 26000 kroners on other electronic things, I might actually also treat me to the adapter at a price of 298 kroner!!!
OK! 3 bugging things so far!!
When I got the iPod I lived in Oslo. My computer had just crashed so I installed iTunes on my flatmate's computer and that's also the computer that I ripped all the music to that I wanted on my iPod. As all of you should know by now, I moved back to Solör at Christmas. I have bought a new laptop, but it won't be delivered for another 2 weeks.
On Sunday I'm going on this 48 hours booze cruise, for this trip I thought it nice to put some new music on to my iPod. I installed iTunes on my father's computer (which is the one I'm using till I get my own), and carefully told iTunes NOT to identify the "My Music" folder as the same as the library in iTunes. After that I found about 10 songs that I wanted to upload to the iPod, put them in the library, plugged in the iPod and got this question: "The iPod has detected that this is not the iTunes library you've been using in the past. Do you want iPod to set this as the new standard library, delet evertying that's on the iPod now and replace it with whatever's in this new iTunes library?" (well, it didn't say exactly that, but something similar!) Of course not!!! I've spent days ripping music into the library in Oslo, I don't want to do all that over again - I want to keep what's on the iPod now AND ad some new songs from this new iTunes library. I answered no to the question - and then nothing more happened. I tried once more, got the same question - said no this time as well - and nothing more happened! This is when I learnt about the 4th thing that bugs me about the iPod: when you change to a new computer, what ever job you've done in the past with ripping music to your old computer - you have to do it all over again!!!
What am I doing today?? Spending the day by the computer ripping music, to the iTunes library, so that when I want to upload this 10 new songs that I want to bring on the party cruise, I also get to keep all the music that I've got on it from before.....
What really really BUGS me is knowing that when I get my own computer in about 2 weeks - I'll have to do it all over again - for the third time!!! Or, oh, I guess I could somehow just copy the files from my fathers computer to my own, but I still have to do a job fixing it.
Why couldn't I just leave out the 10 new songs, and live with whatever's on my iPod when I'm on the cruise? I'm stubborn, that's it! When I've first set my mind on something I'm not very likely to give up before I've got it my way.....
So, I guess by now you might actually have understood how I feel about the iPod. It''s an ok prize in a competition I guess, but never never use good money buying one - there's got to be other kinds of players out there that are far far better than this!
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